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Automate Feature

General 

SocialBu Automations allow you to create custom rules to handle repetitive tasks on your social media accounts intelligently and automatically. Whether it's replying to messages, filtering comments, or triggering specific actions based on events, Automations help save time, increase consistency, and boost engagement.

Creating a SocialBu Automation

SocialBu Automations are custom rules that allow you to automate repetitive tasks across your social media accounts. Unlike traditional schedulers, SocialBu Automations are fully dynamic and designed to handle a wide range of social media scenarios automatically and intelligently.

What is an Automation?


Duplicating an automation in SocialBu allows you to quickly replicate an existing automation's structure, saving time when creating similar workflows. You can later customize the duplicated automation as needed without starting from scratch.

How to duplicate an existing automation?

Data Placeholders in SocialBu are dynamic tags that simplify your automation by letting you insert event-based values directly into your automated replies or posts. Each placeholder pulls specific data from a trigger event and adds it to your message or content automatically.

These are especially useful when setting up automations that respond to messages, publish content, or fetch details from RSS feeds or Webhooks.

How to use Data Placeholders in Socialbu?

Managing automations in SocialBu is simple. Whether you want to temporarily pause or permanently delete an automation, the steps below will help you take the right action.

How to pause and delete automation?

With SocialBu, you can automate many interactions and workflows on Facebook, saving time and improving engagement. Whether you want to manage comments, respond to messages, or monitor reviews, SocialBu Automations can handle it for you.

Possible automation scenarios for Facebook

With SocialBu, you can automate key interactions on Instagram to enhance engagement, streamline communication, and maintain a consistent brand presence. Whether you aim to respond to specific comments, alert internal teams, or moderate your content proactively, SocialBu’s automation tools empower you to manage your Instagram activity with precision and efficiency.

Possible automation scenarios for Instagram

Setting up the automations

A webhook is like a smart notification system. It allows your application to get real-time updates when something specific happens, just like a doorbell rings when someone is at your door. With SocialBu, you can use webhooks to trigger automated actions whenever a custom event occurs outside of the platform.

How to setup a Webhook Automation in Socialbu?

SocialBu enables you to automate actions when a new post is published by a specific account. This automation is useful for notifying your audience, cross-posting, sending internal alerts, and more, all without manual effort.

Setting up an Automated Action when "Post is Published by an Account"

With SocialBu, you can automatically respond to messages on your Facebook Page. This automation is ideal for handling customer queries, sending instant replies, and improving response time, especially outside business hours.

Setting up an Automated Action when a Message is received

RSS Feed Automation allows you to seamlessly link your website or blog to your social media accounts, eliminating the need for manual posting. Once configured, this automation will trigger a predefined action such as publishing a post on your Facebook page whenever a new item appears in your RSS feed.

Setting up an RSS Feed Automation

Understanding RSS Feed Polling Delays

This guide explains how it finds them and how to include images so they’re detected.

How SocialBu Finds Images in Your RSS Feed

Feedback

Roadmap

Changelog

Get started with everything you need to make the most of SocialBu! From setting up your account and connecting your social media profiles, to exploring key features and tips for success. This is your starting point for a smoother, smarter social media management experience. 🚀

Getting Started at SocialBu

Welcome to SocialBu

What is SocialBu and where can I find the demo?

SocialBu Security Policy: Protecting Your Data with Care

SocialBu Billing & Payments – All You Need to Know!

If you no longer wish to manage a social account through SocialBu, you can easily delete it from your dashboard. 

Remove or Delete social account(s) from SocialBu

Ideal File Sizes, Formats, and Media Limits for Social Media posts

How to cancel your Socialbu's subscription

How can I check my Account type on Instagram?

Updating Your Account Email Address or Password

Link shortening through SocialBu

We are always open to collaborating with writers, marketers, and industry experts who want to share practical insights, case studies, and educational content related to social media, marketing, automation, and growth strategies.

Do we allow guest posting?

In this guide, you’ll learn step-by-step how to connect your social media accounts to SocialBu so you can start scheduling and managing your posts from one place. We’ll walk you through the process for each platform

Adding Social Accounts

Take your Pinterest strategy to the next level by connecting your account with SocialBu. With this integration, you can effortlessly schedule pins, track performance, and stay on top of engagement, all from one convenient dashboard.

Adding and managing a Pinterest Account in SocialBu

Adding and managing Instagram account in SocialBu

SocialBu allow users to connect their LinkedIn accounts, schedule content, and manage interactions efficiently. By streamlining LinkedIn management, SocialBu empowers businesses to fully leverage the platform’s potential.

Adding and managing LinkedIn account with SocialBu

Integrating your Facebook account with SocialBu enables you to efficiently manage, schedule, and automate your social media activities. With Socialbu, you can connect as many Facebook pages as you want depending on the plan you have. 

Adding and managing Facebook page(s) through SocialBu

Adding and managing a TikTok Account through SocialBu

Connecting your Google Business Profile (formerly Google My Business) to SocialBu enables you to schedule posts, manage updates, and monitor your business presence directly from one centralized platform.

Adding and managing Google Business Profile through SocialBu

Integrating your Bluesky account with SocialBu allows you to schedule posts, monitor activity, and manage your engagement more efficiently, all from one unified dashboard.


Adding and managing a Bluesky account through SocialBu

Adding and managing X/Twitter account through SocialBu

Adding and managing a Mastodon Account through SocialBu

Adding and managing a Reddit Account through SocialBu

Adding and managing a Thread account through SocialBu

Allowing anyone to Add Social Accounts

Troubleshooting: "account_ids is not set" Error When Adding Social Media Accounts

Connecting Multiple Social Media Profiles and Pages in SocialBu

Explore the different plans available and choose the one that best fits your needs. Compare features, understand pricing details, and learn how to upgrade, downgrade, or switch your plan at any time.

Subscription Plans & Pricing  

Discount for non-profit organizations

SocialBu Plans & Features


In this section, you’ll find everything related to your subscription, payments, and invoices. Easily manage your billing details, update payment methods, review past invoices, and track upcoming charges. 

Billing

Everything you need to know about payments in Socialbu

Why is my card being declined?

Managing your subscription, understanding charges, and handling payment issues should be simple. This guide covers everything you need to know about billing, payment methods, coupons, refunds, and invoices at SocialBu – all in one place.

The Teams feature in SocialBu is designed to make managing multiple clients, accounts, and team members easy, secure, and efficient. Whether you're handling several brands or collaborating with multiple users, Teams helps you stay organized and in control.

Teams

What are Teams? 

Approving and Rejecting pending approval posts with feedback as a team mate

SocialBu makes it easy to collaborate with your team by allowing you to create teams and assign specific access to members. However, the number of teams and users you can add depends on your current subscription plan.

Team limits


SocialBu allows you to collaborate with multiple users within a team, each with tailored access and responsibilities. This guide walks you through how to add users to your team and assign them the right permissions.

Creating and managing a Team

Getting started as a team member in a team

With SocialBu, you can easily post to team-managed social media accounts—even without having direct admin access. This feature allows smooth collaboration across your entire team.

Posting through Team Accounts

The Drafts feature in SocialBu allows team members to collaboratively create, edit, review, and schedule posts before they go live. This ensures a smooth workflow, better coordination, and quality control.

Creating, editing, and approving/viewing draft posts in a team

If a team member no longer needs access to your team or its connected accounts, you can easily remove them from your organization in SocialBu.


Removing a User from your Organization

Reasons posts may not appear in the 'Awaiting Approvals' section.

Can the same team member be added to multiple teams?

Everything you need to know about our referral programs

Affiliate

Everything you need to know about Socialbu affiliate program!

Becoming a Socialbu Affiliate

Can I use Google Ads or Bing Ads to promote Socialbu products?

This collection contains everything you need to know about Publishing and other features. 

Publish Feature

In this section, you will learn how to schedule and manage your content in SocialBu

Schedule

How to see scheduled posts based on different teams?

Adding your social media accounts to SocialBu is the first step to managing all your platforms in one place. Follow this quick guide to connect your profiles and start scheduling, monitoring, and engaging with ease.

Add, Remove, or Reconnect Social Accounts

Where can I find my scheduled posts?


Plan your content ahead of time by scheduling posts for automatic publishing at your chosen date and time, perfect for staying consistent and organized.

Post Immediately or Schedule for Later

Can I search a post based on the content in the Scheduled?

Take full control of your Instagram presence with ease using SocialBu. Schedule posts, stories, reels, and carousels ahead of time to maintain a consistent, on-brand, and visually stunning feed. With SocialBu, you can stay organized, save time, and eliminate the stress of last-minute publishing while delivering content your audience loves. Stay ahead of trends, maintain a cohesive aesthetic, and engage your followers with confidence and creativity.

Creating and Scheduling Instagram posts via SocialBu

Discover how to create and schedule TikTok posts using SocialBu effortlessly. This guide walks you through crafting engaging content and automating your posting schedule, allowing you to stay consistent and grow your audience without the hassle. It’s perfect for creators and brands looking to boost productivity and maintain a strong presence on TikTok.

Creating and Scheduling Tiktok posts via SocialBu

Effortlessly take control of your Facebook content strategy with SocialBu. By scheduling your posts in advance, you ensure a consistent, professional, and highly engaging presence, without the stress of last-minute publishing.

Creating and scheduling Facebook posts via SocialBu

Effortlessly manage your Pinterest content using SocialBu! With our scheduling feature, you can create visually engaging pins and plan them in advance to maintain a consistent posting schedule.

Creating and Scheduling Pinterest posts via SocialBu

With SocialBu, managing your Bluesky presence becomes effortless. You can compose posts, attach media, and schedule them to go live at the perfect time, all from one unified dashboard.

Creating and scheduling BlueSky posts via SocialBu

With Socialbu, you can effortlessly manage your YouTube content by creating and scheduling video posts ahead of time, saving you time and ensuring consistent uploads.

Creating and scheduling Youtube posts via Socialbu

Learn how to create and schedule your posts for Mastodon using Socialbu easily. This guide walks you through composing toots, adding media, setting posting times, and automating your Mastodon presence effortlessly.

Creating and scheduling Mastodon posts via Socialbu

With Socialbu, you can easily create and schedule posts for your Threads account, helping you stay consistent and active without having to post manually every time.

Creating and scheduling Threads posts via Socialbu

Discover how to create and schedule Reddit posts using Socialbu easily. This guide walks you through crafting engaging content and automating post scheduling to maximize your reach and save time. Whether you're managing a personal brand or handling marketing for a business, this article will help you easily streamline your Reddit posting workflow.

Creating and scheduling Reddit posts via Socialbu

Easily create and schedule posts for your Google Business Profile to keep your customers updated with the latest offers, announcements, events, or news. With Socialbu, you can plan your GMB content in advance, ensuring consistent visibility without manual posting every time.

Creating and Scheduling Google My Business posts via Socialbu

Take full control of your LinkedIn content strategy with Socialbu. By scheduling posts in advance, you can maintain a consistent, professional, and impactful presence without the pressure of last-minute publishing.

Creating and Scheduling LinkedIn post via Socialbu

Learn how to effortlessly create and schedule your posts for X (formerly Twitter) using SocialBu. This guide walks you through composing tweets, adding media, setting posting times, and automating your X presence with ease.

Creating and scheduling X/Twitter posts via SocialBu


Fix: “Requires instagram_content_publish permission to manage the object” error in SocialBu

Will posts published via SocialBu show “Posted via SocialBu”?

You will learn everything related to Awaiting approval's section under Publish Feature. 

Awaiting Approval

The Content Approvals feature in SocialBu allows teams to maintain control and consistency by requiring post approvals before publishing. If a team member creates a post that needs approval, it will appear on the “Awaiting Approval” page for review.

Understanding the "Awaiting Approval" Feature in SocialBu

SocialBu allows team collaboration by enabling managers to review and approve posts created by their team members. If a post is awaiting your approval, you can easily approve it in just a few steps.

Managing and Approving/Rejecting the Team-Created Content

When your team members create posts that require approval, those posts will appear in the “Awaiting Approval” section under the Publish menu. As a manager or approver, you can take several actions on these posts before they go live.

Managing Posts in "Awaiting Approval": Edit, Preview, Duplicate & More

The Calendar section gives you a clear overview of all published and scheduled content.

Calendar

SocialBu’s built-in calendar gives you a complete view of your social media activity—both past and upcoming. It’s perfect for managing your posts at a glance and planning content ahead of time.

Understanding the "Calendar" Feature in SocialBu


SocialBu makes it easy to republish your existing posts directly from the Calendar view. Whether you want to reshare evergreen content or repost an update, you can do it with just a few clicks.

Republishing a post through Calendar

SocialBu’s Calendar feature provides a visual and interactive way to schedule your social media posts. It helps you plan your content ahead, stay organized, and ensure consistent publishing across all your connected platforms.

Scheduling Posts Through SocialBu’s Calendar

The Queue feature helps you schedule posts that can automatically recycle in a loop. Instead of posting once, your content can be reused and published again at set intervals, keeping your social media active and consistent without extra effort.

Queues

How do you save posts as drafts or in the queue?

Managing your content queues in SocialBu is essential for maintaining an organized and effective publishing strategy. If you no longer need a queue or want to remove outdated campaigns, deleting a queue is simple and straightforward.


How to delete an Existing Queue?

Whether you want to update the content of a post, adjust its timing, or fix a small error, editing your queued posts in SocialBu is simple and efficient. This guide will walk you through each step to modify your scheduled posts seamlessly.

How to edit queue posts?

Most of the users get confused when there are multiple posts lined up in a Queue or multiple time slots are set for the posting. So let us give you an example with some possible scenarios which will make things more clear.

Possible ways to use the Queues Feature

The Queue feature in SocialBu is designed to help you automate and recycle your evergreen content. With a queue, you can add multiple posts and set them to repeat on your preferred schedule daily, weekly, monthly, or custom. This ensures your audience consistently sees your best-performing content without needing to schedule it manually every time.

What Is the Queue Feature, and How Do You Set It Up?

Everything related to Bulk uploading your posts. Easily upload and schedule multiple posts at once with our Bulk Import feature. Instead of adding content one by one, you can prepare your posts in a CSV and import them in bulk—saving time and effort. Whether you’re planning a week’s content or a full campaign, bulk uploading helps you stay organized, consistent, and efficient.

Bulk Import

SocialBu’s Bulk Import feature allows you to efficiently upload and schedule up to 2000 posts at once across different platforms and accounts. This powerful functionality is ideal for social media managers handling large volumes of content.

Importing content in bulk

When importing content in bulk, errors can occur due to incorrect formatting, invalid data, or system limitations. This guide lists the most common error messages you might encounter during the bulk import process and explains what each one means and how you can fix it. Understanding these messages will help you ensure a smoother and more successful import experience.

Bulk Import Error Messages and Their Causes

Uploading carousel posts in bulk can save you significant time and effort, especially if you manage multiple social media accounts. With SocialBu's Bulk Import feature, you can schedule and publish carousel posts quickly and efficiently using a CSV template.

How to upload carousel/multiple images posts via Bulk Import in SocialBu?

Scheduling hundreds of posts for multiple social media accounts at various times can be overwhelming. SocialBu simplifies this process by allowing you to add posts directly to your Queue using the Bulk Import feature. This makes managing your content calendar easier and more efficient.

Adding Posts to a Queue via Bulk Import

Adding thumbnails to your posts in bulk can save you time and keep your content consistent across multiple platforms. SocialBu makes this easy through the Bulk Import feature.

How to add thumbnails through Bulk Import?

If you want to bulk import your posts to Instagram using SocialBu, follow the steps below. This can help you save time and schedule content in advance efficiently.

How to Bulk Upload Posts on Instagram?

Bulk uploading posts to TikTok via SocialBu is a great way to save time and streamline your content planning. Follow these simple steps to schedule your TikTok posts in bulk.

How to Bulk upload posts on Tiktok?

Bulk uploading posts to Facebook through SocialBu is simple and efficient. You can plan your content calendar ahead and save time by uploading multiple posts at once.

How to Bulk Upload Posts on Facebook?

If you want to save time by scheduling multiple posts to BlueSky at once, SocialBu's bulk upload feature can help. Here's how to do it step by step:

How to Bulk upload posts on BlueSky?

Want to save time by scheduling multiple posts at once to your Google Business Profile? With SocialBu’s Bulk Import feature, you can easily upload posts in bulk using a simple CSV file.

How to Bulk upload posts on Google My Business?

SocialBu allows you to schedule multiple tweets at once through the Bulk Import feature, saving you time and effort when managing your Twitter content.

How to Bulk-Upload Posts on Twitter?

If you're looking to schedule multiple posts on Pinterest at once, SocialBu's Bulk Import tool makes the process quick and efficient.

How to Bulk-Upload Posts on Pinterest?

SocialBu allows you to bulk upload posts to Reddit, making it easier to schedule multiple posts at once. Follow these simple steps to get started:

How to Bulk upload posts on Reddit?

How to bulk upload posts on YouTube?

How to Bulk Upload Posts on LinkedIn?

To bulk import your posts to Threads through SocialBu, follow these simple steps:

How to bulk upload on Threads?

How to Bulk upload posts on Mastodon?

Troubleshooting: "Account not set for row X" Error When Uploading CSV Files

History

SocialBu makes it easy to keep track of all your published content across your connected social media accounts. You can find all your published posts in two main sections: the Calendar and History.